The spiritual decisiveness of the New Birth can be understood more fully by noting three of its characteristic elements: repentance, regeneration, and conversion. Repentance is a change of mind ...

To many he was a worldly opportunist who, somewhere along the way, underwent a remarkable spiritual conversion. Others saw him as a martyr only to ambition, who lost out in a struggle for power wi ...

"But,” he added, “there is another way to understand it that is more spiritual and that I connect to deeply as a convert: If you teach Torah to someone who isn’t Jewish, they will become ...

What caused Dorothy Day to stand out in her time, as it does still, is the way her spiritual life was expressed not only in ...

It is through the “experience of recent years” that the meaning of the terms “synodality” and “synodal” have come “to be ...

One of the challenges to supporting persecuted Christians abroad is that many in the West don't realize just how much their ...

Annihilation is another conversion novel ... late-style phase of his career. Paul’s spiritual quest steers him surprisingly close to New Age creeds that the author, as a young man, would ...

What did I notice? How is this different from how I normally pay attention? What am I experiencing in my body, thoughts, feelings right now? Mindfulness is the experience of developing particular ...

On her birthday, let’s revisit Julia Roberts' conversion to Hinduism—a faith she embraced even before filming Eat, Pray, Love ...

Christians in many countries around the world are celebrating All Saints' Day on Friday, a somber and spiritual day in the ...

Celebrate Guru Nanak Jayanti in Delhi by visiting historic Gurudwaras, joining kirtans, and experiencing the spiritual ...